A beaming Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic party’s nomination for president on Tuesday night, embracing her role as a glass ceiling-breaking woman and continuing her attack on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“Thanks to you, we reached a milestone,” the former secretary of state, senator and first lady told a wildly cheering audience in Brooklyn. “First time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee. Tonight’s victory is not about one person, it belongs to generations of women and men who sacrificed and made this moment possible.”

Clinton referenced the decades-long struggle for equal rights for women.

“We all owe so much to those who came before, and tonight belongs to all of you,” she said.

Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary in New Jersey on Tuesday and further extended her lead against rival Bernie Sanders.

According to an AP count, Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and it is no longer possible for Bernie Sanders to reach the 2,383 needed to win the nomination based on the remaining available pledged delegates and uncommitted superdelegates.

She praised Sanders’ vigorous campaign that the Vermont senator continues to wage.

“I want to congratulate Sen. Sanders for the extraordinary campaign,” Clinton said. She said the debates on issues have been good for the Democratic party and the U.S.

As for her likely Republican foe in the general election, Clinton said: “Donald Trump� is temperamentally unfit to be president.”

This time, Clinton gets the celebration she’d hoped for in 2008, when she lost the primary to then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama — and by many accounts, long before that.

Clinton secured the 2,383 delegates she needed for the nomination on the eve of Tuesday’s voting, according to an Associated Press tally. Her total is comprised of pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses, as well as superdelegates — the party officials and officeholders who can back a candidate of their choosing.

“We are at the brink of a historic, historic unprecedented moment,” she said during a rally in Long Beach on Monday.

Still, she was wasting no time moving toward the general election. Her campaign announced that she would make stops next week in Ohio and Pennsylvania, states that will be pivotal in November.

Her victory speech tonight in Brooklyn carries meaning and history to Clinton and her supporters.

It comes after the one-two punch of clinching the nomination in historic fashion and wrapping up the last big round of primaries. It also marks the eight-year anniversary of Clinton’s concession speech to Obama, in which she noted her campaign hadn’t breached “that highest, hardest glass ceiling” but that barrier now had “about 18 million cracks in it.”

She’s now assured of crossing that boundary as the first woman to win the presidential nomination of any major party. How she proceeds toward Election Day begins with mending the stubborn split between her supporters and those of rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ — and depends significantly on how well she learns a bracing lesson he taught her: Young people, especially young women, flocked to him in the primaries.

The occasion also opens the gates to flashy endorsements. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco didn’t wait for the votes Tuesday to announce her support. There’s a bigger one on the horizon from President Obama, followed by joint appearances.

Clinton’s supporters basked in the moment.

Riverside resident Peggy Haro, 60, voted for Clinton in 2008 and again Tuesday.

“I think it’s wonderful for her, and it’s wonderful for women,” she said. “I think it’s time for a change. Everyone has to have a chance to be up there, to be president of the United States.”

Haro said she was pleased that voters elected a black president, Barack Obama, in 2008 and again in 2012.

San Bernardino City Councilwoman Virginia Marquez, a Democrat, called Clinton’s apparent victory a historic moment.

“I never thought I’d be looking at an election that would have a female candidate (for president),” Marquez said, recalling her first time voting in the 1976 election for Jimmy Carter. “It’s an incredible journey.”

Marquez said she’s confident that Clinton will go on to win in the fall, giving the United States it’s first female president.

“It’s very significant as a woman myself,” Marquez said. “This will speak volumtes to the world that we can elect women.”

San Bernardino County Supervisor Josie Gonzales, a Democrat, called Clinton’s nomination “a great political breakthrough.”

“It definitely identifies the fact that different perspectives, in this case a female perspective and presence, has a strong approval rating and high acceptance level and that bodes well for all women that are attempting to enter and succeed in politics or in the corporate arena,” she said.

Women still face challenges of having to work harder than male colleagues or not being taken as seriously, Gonzales said.

“The fact is there are many well-camouflaged obstacles, whether it’s in politics or the corporate world, that continue to present challenges for women,” she said.

Riverside League of Women Voters President Joan Donahue said Hillary Clinton’s expected nomination is an important political moment.

Donahue didn’t back Clinton in the primary, but she said she would happily vote for her in November.

“Women are well known for getting things done with results that produce a win-win situation,” she said.

But Donahue is worried about the reaction from voters who oppose having a woman in a position of such power.

“Misogyny is the last holdout of bias,” she said.

Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, a Riverside resident, was ecstatic.

“I’m thrilled,” said Valdez-Yeager, past president of the Latino Network, a nonprofit that addresses Latino issues.

“When you think of history and what women have had to go through to get the right to vote and strive for equal pay, you say, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s been a long time coming,’” she said. “She’s the most qualified woman in my lifetime to be president.”

Valdez-Yeager said she attended Clinton’s recent rally at UC Riverside and, along with her daughter, Marisa Yeager, has been making phone calls for her campaign.

Clinton is articulate, knows the issues and has foreign policy experience as former secretary of state, she said.

“Now we have to work hard to make sure the Democratic Party comes together so we can elect the first woman president,” Valdez-Yeager said.

Christine Cahraman, 52, of Riverside, said she voted for Sanders on Tuesday but would not hesitate to vote for Clinton in the general election.

“As a woman in my early 50s, I should be totally on board for Hillary,” but Sanders’ campaign against corporate money influencing elections earned her vote, Cahraman said.

But she appreciates the historic nature of the day, even if it hasn’t fully sunk in yet.

“That’s wonderful, and even Hillary said she’s not the first woman president for just women. It’s a monumental thing.”

In San Diego, 82-year-old Harry Backer strolled past cyclists, skateboarders and kayakers on the way to vote for Clinton. The retired teacher, who also worked in construction, said America needs a level-headed, grounded woman with world experience.

“I’m left of Bernie Sanders, but I know that she’s the candidate that can possibly get something done,” Backer said.

He also wanted to be part of history in making Clinton the first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party.

Bob Burhenn, 82, a retired Sioux Falls, South Dakota, businessman, said he voted for Clinton because it’s time to put a woman in the nation’s highest office.

“Men have been in charge long enough,” Burhenn said. “And they’re smarter than us, anyway.”